In regards to Roy's recent post to the list regarding the Farsi phrase "Khom Gia Khori" and subsequent slander of NFL, I would like to share the experience of my friend Farzod who is from Iran. Farzod was raised a vegan and has never eaten any animal foods in his life. He is trying to go raw now (and is working very hard at it!) : ) Farzod's grandfather lived in a village near Isfahan, south of Tehran, where the entire community was vegan with several raw-foodists. Farzod was raised within that tradition, but actually spent half his childhood in Tehran and the other half in the San Francisco/Bay Area. I asked Farzod about Khom Gia Khori and he said it meant, in Farsi, a "raw-vegetarian" and is quite a common expression in Tehran. Clearly Roy is making blanket generalizations about the heavy-meat/cooked-food eating habits of Persian culture (which are part of every culture!) and is simply looking for an excuse to discredit NFL to uplift his own self-esteem. Love, Vicki